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by Alex Capon Blake Morgan LLP and author of Artist’s Resale Right: A Guide to Law and Practice, told ATG: “The inclusion of The UK has agreed to follow the ARR in the final Brexit deal should existing Artist’s Resale Right not come as a surprise. (ARR) regulations under the “The UK had already stated its Brexit trade deal that came into intention to retain ARR in UK law in effect earlier this month. the Political Declaration relating to The settlement includes clauses Brexit made in October 2019 and had relating to the resale levy in which already put in place legal provisions both the EU and UK have committed for ARR to continue to fully operate to continuing ARR as part of the level in the UK, whether or not there was a playing field. deal with the EU. Although the text of the agreement “However, the Brexit deal does not may disappoint some Brexiteers in the commit the UK to continue to retain art market who hoped the UK would ARR in its current form. This means be able to pursue a different course the UK will have more flexibility than after leaving the EU, it does appear to currently in how it applies the right – it allow for some leeway in terms of can revisit how the right is collected changing how ARR operates and even and also the thresholds and royalty the levels at which the charges apply. amounts.” Currently under ARR, royalties are paid on original works of art when Tariffs risk they are resold by an art market If a future UK government decided to professional and the sale price exceeds revoke ARR entirely, as some dealers €1000. The amount due is calculated and auctioneers have called for, the Virtual States on a sliding scale and is capped at EU could respond by calling for €12,500. arbitration and, should that fail, the Dealers, collectors and curators traditionally head to New York and Florida in January The levy gives creators of original imposition of retaliatory tariffs and February for a wide array of events. However, this year has inevitably been shaken works across their lifetime, and their (although Stokes pointed out that up by coronavirus restrictions and no large gatherings will be held. A few dealers and family for 70 years after their death, such a scenario appears unlikely). galleries will be open by appointment but most exhibitions will be accessible only the right to receive a payment when The Brexit deal contains a string of from a computer. their work is resold. other changes for the art market. However, plenty of works can still be found in the many shows alongside a mix In theory, the UK could change the Most immediately, trade will no of online only and live auctions. Shown above is Pax by Carl Johan Forsberg, which percentages and thresholds, although longer be frictionless – customs and appears in an exhibition staged by London gallery Stephen Ongpin Fine Art taking the government has not indicated it regulatory checks now apply when place in the Big Apple as part of the latest edition of Master Drawings New York. would consider doing so. See Dealers’ Diary, p26-27, and International Events, p30-34. Lawyer Simon Stokes, partner at Continued on page 4
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Brontë (Charlotte) Illuminated prayer book.- American Revolution.- Hardy (Thomas) BrontëJane Eyre. (Charlotte) An Autobiography, MariaIlluminated Carcer prayery Trigueros... book.- Santa Misa y AmericanLoyalist’s cow Revolution.- powder horn, engraved with the TheHardy Mayor (Thomas) of Casterbridge, Jane3 vol., Eyre. first An edition, Autobiography, 1847. Oraciones,Maria Carcer y Trigueros... Santa Misa y Loyalist’scypher “GR” cow for powder George horn, III surmounted engraved with by a the crown..., 2The vol., Mayor first of edition Casterbridge, in book form, 3Est. vol., £10,000-15,000 first edition, 1847. illuminatedOraciones, manuscript in Spanish, [c. 1850]. cypher(Saratoga), “GR” 1777.for George III surmounted by a crown..., original2 vol., first cloth, edition 1886. in book form, Est. £10,000-15,000 Est.illuminated £5,000-7,000 manuscript in Spanish, [c. 1850]. (Saratoga),Est. £5,000-7,000 1777. Est.original £2,000-3,000 cloth, 1886. Est. £5,000-7,000 Est. £5,000-7,000 Est. £2,000-3,000
[Austen (Jane)] Nazraeli Press.- Meunier (Charles, binder).- Gruel (Leon) Australasia.- Péron (Francois) and [AustenEmma: A (Jane)]Novel, SixNazraeli by Six, Press.- ManuelMeunier Historique (Charles, et binder).- Bibliographique Gruel (Leon) de l’Amateur de LouisAustralasia.- Freycinet. Péron (Francois) and Emma:first edition, A Novel, 1816. 36Six vol.by Six, [a complete set], one of 100 sets, 2010-16. Reliures,Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de l’Amateur de VoyageLouis Freycinet. de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, firstEst. £7,000-10,000 edition, 1816. Est.36 vol. £10,000-15,000 [a complete set], one of 100 sets, 2010-16. 2Reliures, vol., Paris, 1887-1905. 5Voyage vol. including de Découvertes Atlas, aux Terres Australes, Est. £7,000-10,000 Est. £10,000-15,000 Est.2 vol., £3,000-4,000 Paris, 1887-1905. 5second vol. including edition, Atlas, Paris, 1824. Est. £3,000-4,000 Est. second £6,000-8,000 edition, Paris, 1824. Est. £6,000-8,000
Burne-Jones (Sir Edward) [Greek Orthodox Church].- Dickens (Charles) [The Works] Schedel (Hartmann) TheBurne-Jones Work of Edward (Sir Edward) Burne-Jones, [GreekMenaion, Orthodox Church].- DickensThe Nonesuch (Charles) Dickens, [The Works] LiberSchedel Chronicarum, (Hartmann) editedThe Work by ofPhilip Edward Burne-Jones, Burne-Jones, Menaion,manuscript in Greek, on paper, [c. 1400]. The24 vol., Nonesuch one of Dickens, 877 sets, Nonesuch Press, 1937-38. firstLiber Chronicarum,edition, Nuremberg, 1493. oneedited of by200 Philip copies, Burne-Jones, [c.1900]. manuscriptEst. £5,000-7,000 in Greek, on paper, [c. 1400]. 24Est. vol., £3,000-5,000 one of 877 sets, Nonesuch Press, 1937-38. Est.first £30,000-50,000 edition, Nuremberg, 1493. Est.one £4,000-6,000of 200 copies, [c.1900]. Est. £5,000-7,000 Est. £3,000-5,000 Est. £30,000-50,000 Est. £4,000-6,000
Broadside.- Charles I. By the King. [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], “Lewis Carroll”. Aldbrough.- Bowen (J., surveyor) Gillray (James) Broadside.-A proclamation Charles for the I. By prizing the King. of [DodgsonThrough the (Charles Looking Lutwidge)],Glass, “Lewis Carroll”. Aldbrough.-A Description Bowenof the Mannor (J., surveyor) or Farme of Bewycke TheGillray Caricatures (James) of Gillray; with Historical Awines, proclamation by Robert for Barker..., the prizing of Throughthird edition, the Looking the suppressed Glass, ‘sixtieth thousand’ issue, Alying Description in ye parish of the of Alburgh...,Mannor or Farme of Bewycke andThe CaricaturesPolitical Illustrations..., of Gillray; with Historical wines,1641 [i.e. by Robert1642]. Barker..., thirdpresentation edition, copythe suppressed from the author ‘sixtieth to thousand’the Mechanics’ issue, lyingmanuscript in ye parish estate of mapAlburgh..., on vellum, 1627. [c.and 1818-1824]. Political Illustrations..., 1641Est. £1,500-2,000 [i.e. 1642]. presentationInstitute, 1893. copy from the author to the Mechanics’ manuscriptEst. £3,000-5,000 estate map on vellum, 1627. Est.[c. 1818-1824]. £3,000-4,000 Est. £1,500-2,000 Institute,Est. £4,000-6,000 1893. Est. £3,000-5,000 Est. £3,000-4,000 Est. £4,000-6,000
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Brexit deal: When UK purchasers buy works of art in Europe, import VAT of 5% will apply
Continued from front page The average import VAT rate applied by the UK’s top six Trade and Cooperation Agreement moving items between the UK EU trading partners is 9.2%. and the EU (see ATG No 2472). When UK purchasers buy in Signed at the end of last year, the Brexit deal EU countries since 2006, although the text There are also extra Europe, import VAT of 5% will (or ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ to in the Brexit agreement is considerably less considerations for items subject apply. give it its full title) includes a large series detailed (four clauses as opposed to over 50 in to CITES guides. The Brexit deal also contains of measures that maintain the level playing the EU directive). clauses relating to cultural field, including a detailed section relating to VAT variations property under the ‘Trade in Simon Stokes pointed out that overall the intellectual property. Rudy Capildeo, partner at law Goods’ section (Article Goods wording in the Brexit deal is in fact closer to firm Charles Russell Speechlys, 20, p26 of the agreement). Within this section on page 130 of the what the Berne Convention on international pointed to other key changes While the UK and EU have agreement, Article IP.13 states: ‘Each Party copyright says about ARR. including that, while the pledged to work together to shall provide, for the benefit of the author of The Brexit deal also states that ‘the Temporary Admission scheme return illicitly removed cultural an original work of graphic or plastic art, a procedure for collection… and their amounts remains in place (meaning property from the territories of resale right, to be defined as an inalienable shall be determined by the law of each Party’, duties and taxes are not either side, the UK has not right, which cannot be waived, even in which appears to allow for some divergence in charged when works of art are signed up to EU regulations advance, to receive a royalty based on the the charges and how they operate in the future. imported in order to be relating to cultural goods sale price obtained for any resale of the work, exhibited or auctioned), EU sourced from elsewhere. subsequent to the first transfer of the work by One aspect the UK could change quite buyers will now pay import Since January 1 the rules the author.’ easily and quickly would be to change the ARR VAT in their respective country have also changed for EU thresholds and bands so they are calculated in when they make purchases in nationals moving to or opening The language in this clause is similar to the pounds rather than euros. the UK (assuming the goods a business in the UK with the EU directive on ARR that has been applied in were also sourced in the UK). same true vice-versa.
Man City owner was buyer of oldest FA Cup cup would head abroad but it is Aston Villa and was never They won the Second by Tom Derbyshire staying in England – City will recovered. Made by Vaughton Division in 1899. loan the trophy to the National & Sons, Birmingham, in 1896, They were the The oldest surviving FA Cup Football Museum in a note on the underside reads first Manchester was bought by Manchester City Manchester indefinitely. Made By P Vaughton & Sons club to taste FC owner Sheikh Mansour bin Birmingham 1896 From A Cast Of success in the FA Zayed when it sold at a London Kinnaird provenance The Old Cup Which Was Lost. Cup – United won auction last year, it has now When this cup was ‘retired’ it The cup had been bought in this same trophy in been revealed. was presented in 1911 to FA May 2005 by the then 1909, beating Bristol Presented to the winning president and former footballer Birmingham City chairman City 1-0. teams between 1896-1910, the Lord Kinnaird (1847-1923) in David Gold for £420,000 at trophy was in fact the first recognition of his service and Christie’s South Kensington, major honour won by City remained in the Kinnaird the price setting a record for a thanks to their 1-0 win over family until 2005. Kinnaird is piece of sporting memorabilia. Bolton Wanderers in 1904 in a regarded as the first football It had up until recently been on game played at Crystal Palace. ‘star’ and played in nine FA display at the National Football Right: Sheikh Offered at the Bonhams Cup finals, winning two with Museum, lent by Gold, who is Mansour bin Zayed Sporting Trophies Sale in New Old Etonians and three with now joint chairman of West is the new owner Bond Street, London, on Wanderers. Ham United. of this 1896 FA September 29 with an estimate The silver two-handled Manchester City date back Cup trophy made of £700,000-900,000, it had trophy was cast from a mould to the 1880 St Mark’s (West by Vaughton sold for a premium-inclusive of the original, which was Gorton) club and their present & Sons of £759,062. There were fears the stolen in 1895 while held by name was adopted in 1894. Birmingham.
BADA appoints director of strategy and operations to new-look team The British Antique Dealers’ Association Singer, will work alongside secretary general Institute of Export and International Trade. The (BADA) has reorganised its team and Mark Dodgson. She has previously worked association recently appointed Louise Phillips created a new role of director of strategy and at dealership Lorfords in both Tetbury and as new chairman of its council. operations. in London and most recently as its general It is still searching for a new president. It will no longer have the position of chief manager in Tetbury. Asian art specialist Roger Keverne is currently executive. Instead, the newly appointed BADA’s former chief executive, Marco interim president. Above: Kathryn Singer director of strategy and operations, Kathryn Forgione, resigned in 2019 to head the Laura Chesters
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by Laura Chesters ago. Harvey has also previously worked at dealership Mallet and The Fine Art Auction An auctioneer has put his own Group. name above the door after Managing director working for more than three Rushbrook, who started his decades in the same Winchester career in London in the saleroom. saleroom of Harrods Estate Iain Rushbrook has 42 years Offices before moving back to of auction house experience, Winchester in 1979 to Pearsons with 35 of them spent at The Left: the team in Auctions’ Tower House Red House on Hyde Street in Winchester are (from saleroom, is co-owner with Winchester. top left to bottom right) Auctionet. He has now renamed the Iain Rushbrook, Fabio The first online sale under firm Rushbrooks Auctioneers Caliri, Sonya Wiebers the new banner launches this as a new venture with backing and Jacob Carpenter. week. from Swedish firm Auctionet. James Harvey (above) Bellmans senior director Over the years Rushbrook has joined as a picture Philip Belcher said: “It was a and The Red House saleroom specialist. strategic decision to focus on had operated under the banner our Sussex saleroom and our of Phillips, Son & Neale and good consignment office in Bonhams, before becoming will focus on its main saleroom Remaining with Rushbrook picture director is James London. In Sussex we have a part of Bellmans in 2016. in Wisborough Green, West in Winchester are Fabio Caliri, Harvey, who worked with huge saleroom that allows for After an amicable agreement Sussex, and its office in Sonya Wiebers and Jacob Rushbrook in Winchester at plenty of space to operate in a between the parties, Bellmans London. Carpenter. Joining the team as Phillips, Son & Neale 30 years Covid-secure way.”
Munich museum buys stele Missing lot reported as stolen from London dealership A Wiltshire auction house has alerted Worcester coffee pot and teabowl, a the trade to a missing collection of French cache pot and a rococo-style An Egyptian polychrome porcelain. box. It went missing from Kidson painted limestone relief from Thames Valley Police and the Art Trigg’s saleroom sometime between the 12th dynasty has been Loss Register have been notified the November 27 and December 15. bought by the State Museum of collection has been stolen. Kidson Trigg hopes to recover the Egyptian Art in Munich, It was offered as a lot in an online items and return them to the purchaser Germany. auction held by Kidson Trigg near of the lot. Anyone with information on London and New York- Highworth, Swindon, in Wiltshire on this theft should call 101 quoting the based art dealers Oliver Forge November 26 police crime reference number and Brendan Lynch have sold The mixed lot included three 43200426981 or call Crimestoppers the c.1938-1850BC stele for in Meissen-style cherubs, a First Period anonymously on 0800 555 111. excess of £40,000. The 16in (41cm) high stele had previously been sold in Frankfurt in 1976 and was in a private German collection until 2016. Respect to Horus It shows a husband and wife holding hands and standing before a table laden with food and drink. It also includes an inscription in hieroglyphic and hieratic text reading ‘[O] Horus, Great of Respect. I am a falcon of gold I am’. Scottish lockdown changes Forge and Lynch said a similar example, possibly by Click-and-collect services from non-essential retail will now no longer be allowed in the same hand, is in the with another stele and two Above: the Scotland, meaning only delivery and courier services can operate for art and antiques Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, statues from the same period, 12th Dynasty shops and auction houses under current coronavirus restrictions. Leiden, in the Netherlands. enabling the museum to polychrome stele This is in line with the current rules in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The Munich museum has illustrate the complete story of bought by the In mainland Scotland the latest lockdown began on January 5, with non-essential purchased the stele because it the First Intermediate Period State Museum of retail closed. In Northern Ireland all non-essential retail businesses closed from fills a gap in the collection. through to and including the Egyptian Art in December 26 and Ireland returned to its highest-level lockdown (level 5) at the end of It will be shown together Middle Kingdom. Munich. December with non-essential shops closed. antiquestradegazette.com 23 January 2021 | 5
PAGE 001, 004, 005 2476.indd 3 15/01/2021 12:02:49 Tuesday 26th & Wednesday 27th January Two-Day Antiques & Fine Art Sale Featuring the Jane Sumner Collection (150 lots) Lot 1. Chinese blue and white ‘Dragon’ box and cover, six-character Wanli (1563–1620) mark Lot 200. Fine pair of 19th century and probably of the period Day One at 10am: Ceramics & Glass (125 lots), Works of Art (189 lots), toleware tea canisters and covers of £800-1,200 (plus 24% BP*) Jewellery & Watches (79 lots) octagonal form £1,000-2,000 (plus 24% BP*) Day Two at 10am: Pictures (168 lots), Furniture (226 lots), Rugs (39 lots), Clocks (27 lots)
Lot 221. Fine Victorian silver mounted cameo glass decanter in the manner of Thomas Webb, London 1883 £600-1,000 (plus 24% BP*)
Lot 340. Fine quality Lot 204. William and Mary-style walnut and oyster veneered miniature chest of drawers Lot 424. John Randall Bratby 19th century French £800-1,200 (plus 24% BP*) (1928-1992), oil on canvas, Etruscan revival gold Lot 208. Fine olive wood oyster veneered miniature chest of drawers Sunflowers and Girls, signed, turquoise, diamond and £1,000-2,000 (plus 24% BP*) framed, 121cm x 91cm pearl hinged bangle Lot 600. Fine 18th century and later Italian pietra dura and ebonised cabinet on stand £1,500-2,500 (plus 24% BP*) £1,000-1,500 £3,000-5,000 (plus 24% BP*) (plus 24% BP*) Sadly there will be no viewing or attendance for this auction. Additional photographs and condition reports can be viewed on our website www.reemandansie.com, we can also offer remote viewing via live video call, please contact our offices for an appointment.
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Lot 1306. Jacob More (1740-1793). Lot 9. Lot 1209. Curtis (William). FLORA Lot 1306. Jacob More (1740-1793). Lot 236. Secretaire bookcase Lot 9. Japanned Cabinet Lot 1209. Curtis (William). FLORA The Falls of Tivoli, 148cm x 201cm Lot 236. Secretaire bookcase Lot 9. JapannedJapanned Cabinet LONDINENSIS...Lot 1209. CurtisFIRST (William).EDITION FLORA2 vol LotLot 1306. 1306. JacobJacob MoreMore (1740-1793). (1740-1793). LONDINENSIS...Lot 1209. Curtis FIRST(William). EDITION FLORA 2 vol TheLot 1306.Falls ofJacob Tivoli, More 148cm (1740-1793). x 201cm LotLot 236. 236. Secretaire Secretaire bookcase bookcase LotLot 9. 9. Japanned JapannedCabinet Cabinet Cabinet Lot 1209.LONDINENSIS... Curtis (William). FIRST EDITION FLORA 2 vol TheThe Falls Falls ofof Tivoli, 148cm 148cm x 201cmx 201cm The Bourne Auction Rooms The GranthamLONDINENSIS...LONDINENSIS... Auction FIRSTFIRST Rooms EDITION The2 vol LincolnThe Auction Falls of Tivoli, Rooms 148cm x 201cm The Bourne Auction Rooms The Grantham Auction Rooms The Lincoln Auction Rooms T: 01778 422686 T: 01476 565118 T: 01522 524984 TheThe Bourne Bourne Auction Auction Rooms Rooms TheThe Grantham Grantham AuctionAuction RoomsRooms The LincolnT: 01522 AuctionAuction 524984 RoomsRooms E: [email protected]: 01778 422686 E: [email protected]: 01476 565118 E: [email protected] E: [email protected]:T: 01778 01778 422686 422686 E: [email protected]:T: 01476 01476 565118565118 E: [email protected]: 0152201522 524984524984 E:Leicester:E: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] London:E: [email protected]: [email protected] [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected] Leicester: [email protected] London: [email protected] Louth: [email protected] Stamford: [email protected] Visit goldingyoung.com for catalogues, sale results and services. Leicester:Leicester: [email protected] [email protected]:London: goldingyoung.com [email protected] [email protected] for catalogues,LouthLouth: : [email protected]@goldingyoung.com results and services.Stamford: [email protected]@goldingyoung.com VisitVisit goldingyoung.com goldingyoung.com for for catalogues,catalogues, salesale resultsresults and services.
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A pair of large 19th century Chinese hardwood decorated elephant-formed seats. A good collection of 12 late 19th century miniature paintings on ivory. A collection of Russian Kinjal Niello daggers. £2,000-£3,000 (+BP*) £1,000-£1,500 (+BP*) Estimates from £800 to £1,200 (+BP*)
A collection of Indian and Persian flintlock pistols. A good selection of Chinese and Japanese ivory and other works of art. A good selection of Islamic silver inlaid caskets. Estimates from £600 to £800 (+BP*) Various estimates (+BP*) Various estimates (+BP*)
Henri Michael Antoine Chapu, One of four large Georgian and later barometers. A good Persian circular rug. good bronze group. Russian Orthodox crucifixes. Estimates from £100 to £1,000 (+BP*) £800-£1,200 (+BP*) £1,500-£2,000 (+BP*) Estimates £1,000-£3,000 (+BP*)
A George III mahogany batchelor’s chest. Three from a collection of over 20 clocks. Russian objets d’art and watches. An 18th century walnut chest of drawers. £400-£600 (+BP*) Various estimates (+BP*) Various estimates (+BP*) £400-£600 (+BP*) Contact us by email for condition reports. We also accept Online Bidding commission and is available through: telephone bids BP* - Buyer’s Premium 25% of the hammer price + VAT on the premium Please contact us for further information on 01428 653727, email [email protected], or visit the website www.johnnicholsons.com
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Pick of the week Aroma therapy: the c.1800 perfumes concealed in a book
The luxury perfumery l’Officina Profuma Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence is considered the oldest pharmacy in the world. Above and right: two views of an early 19th With its origins rooted in the experiments of century box of Fonderia di S Maria Novella Dominican monks, a retail operation was established scents sold for £2200 at Tennants on January 9. in Via Reginaldo Giuliani in 1612 by Fra Angiolo Marchissi and it remained in the ownership of the Church of Santa Maria Novella until 1866. Jewellery, Watches & Silver in Leyburn on January 9 In an era when sweet-smelling aromas were thought were of a much later vintage. to counter the spread of disease, scented waters However, dating from c.1800, these were were deemed as important to a ‘modern’ pharmacy as remarkable survivors. curative tonics and digestive aids. Acqua della Regina, Housed within a case formed as a gilt-tooled Fragrances illustrated in Edmund Launert’s Scent and the first perfume to use alcohol rather than vinegar morocco leather book titled Quint Essenze were a Scent Bottles (1974). or olive oil as a base, was given by the chemists of series of six bottles (one probably associated) with Tennants guided the lot, which formed part of a Santa Maria to patron Catherine de Medici before her various labels in Italian for nutmeg, camphor, cedar, small collection of perfume bottles, at £120-180 but it departure for France in 1533. lavender and bergamot. met far greater competition. The hammer price, bid by The Fonderia di S Maria Novella scent bottles The case, retaining its original printed label, the UK trade, was £2200 (plus 20% buyer’s premium). offered as part of Tennants’ live online auction of is similar to another from the collection of Drom Roland Arkell
Sotheby’s Paris on assessment of the ways in She previously worked on support for its Designer Book- the move by 2023 which the art trade facilitates the refurbishment project of the binders’ ‘Transferring Design money laundering and terror Dreweatts offices and joined initiative’ which encourages Sotheby’s Paris headquarters financing, and to recommend the firm in 2019 as the admin- students on allied courses in will be moving to a new site in to Congress the degree to istrator for its Pall Mall office UK universities and colleges to Precious 2023, where Galerie Bernheim which the art market should be and Bloomsbury Auctions. consider a career in metals Jeune was previously located subject to AML regulations. After graduating in 2015 from bookbinding. on rue du Faubourg Durham University, she The programme funding has On Friday, January 15, Saint-Honoré. worked with a number of enabled Kate Holland, a fellow The Galerie Bernheim- London galleries and auction of Designer Bookbinders, to Michael Bloomstein of Robinson and Jeune, housed on the same site houses before joining Christie’s teach a course within the grad- Brighton was paying the Jones promoted since 1925, played a major role in 2017. uate diploma in conservation following for bulk scrap in the development of the 20th Dreweatts has promoted two studies, specialising in books against a gold fix of: century art market. The new members of staff. and library materials. $1853.85 €1530.25 £1357.57 premises will enable Sotheby’s Joe Robinson has been Funding boosts Holland said: “Hand book- to develop its exhibition space. appointed head of house sales bookbinding binding forms an important Gold and private collections. He has part of our national heritage 22 carat: £1200.88 per oz worked in Dreweatts’ business The Clothworkers’ Company and techniques such as edge (£38.61 per gram) New US rules on development team for three has helped fund a course in gliding and gold finishing are years and previously in the bookbinding. The last full-time in serious danger of being lost 18 carat: £982.54 (£31.59) money laundering chairman’s office at Christie’s bookbinding course in the UK forever. The Clothworkers’ 15 carat: £818.78 (£26.33) The Anti-Money Laundering after graduating from the Uni- (the Queen’s Bindery Appren- Company, in collaboration Act 2020 (AMLA) was passed versity of Nottingham in 2016. ticeship Scheme at Windsor with Designer Bookbinders, 14 carat: £764.20 (£24.57) in Congress as part of the Imogen Jones has been Castle) ceased last year due to have been incredibly support- 9 carat: £491.27 per oz National Defense Authorization appointed office manager at Covid-19. ive and generous with their Act in the US on January 1. Dreweatts’ Pall Mall office in However, now thanks to this funding.” (£15.80 per gram) Among the changes in this St James’s. She will work with funding West Dean College of 12 Month High: ▲ £18.32 AMLA is that antiquities deal- the team of specialists based in Arts and Conservation near 12 Month Low: ▼ £13.81 ers, advisers and consultants London. Chichester has received Huge bequest for have been added to the defini- Williamsburg Hallmark Platinum tion of “financial institutions” £22.00 per gram that are subject to anti-money The Colonial Williamsburg laundering rules. Foundation has received its Silver This means they must meet most significant American certain record-keeping, report- decorative arts bequest in its £15.38 per oz for 925 ing and other AML compliance Left: Imogen 90-year history. It comes from standard hallmarked requirements. The new law also Jones and Joe the Joseph and June Hennage 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 directs the Department of Robinson have Collection which comprises Treasury and the Department been promoted more than 400 objects includ- 12 Month Low: ▼ £8.60 of Justice to conduct an at Dreweatts. ing paintings, prints, antique 8 | 23 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 008-009 2476.indd 1 15/01/2021 13:57:39 Bid Barometer Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com
TOP SELLING LOTS Courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation toy animals, vehicles and fig- ures. It includes examples of Pax Romana, London, January 10 furniture from Massachusetts, Gandharan schist figure of a Rhode Island, Connecticut, bodhisattva c.100-300AD, 22in New York, Pennsylvania and Most read (54cm), from a collection acquired on Maryland, as well as silver by the UK art market in the 1970s-80s. the major East Coast artisans Estimate: £4000-6000 of that day. The most viewed stories for Hammer: £18,000 The items will be become week December 7-13 on part of the collection of the antiquestradegazette.com DeWitt Wallace Decorative Charterhouse, Arts Museum which is part of 1 Promotions, Sherborne, January 7 Colonial Williamsburg. appointments and Pen and ink drawing of a moves – the latest landscape attributed to Movers and Shakers Giovanni Francesco across the art and Barbieri, known as Peterborough fair antiques market date rearranged Above: among the items from Guercino (1591-1666), 9 x the Joseph and June Hennage 2 Orientalist basin, 13in (23 x 34cm), with Fair organiser IACF has Collection is this Philadelphia mahogany bookcases, Agnews label verso. rescheduled its Peterborough Fes- mahogany high chest, c.1770. Arts & Crafts oak Estimate: £400-600 tival of Antiques which had been It came from the Bache family chest – five auction Hammer: £16,000 planned for Easter. Due to from Sarah (Franklin) and highlights that caught coronavirus restrictions and Richard Bache, daughter and bidders’ eyes after consulting with the show- son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin, Rogers Jones, Colwyn Bay, ground and the local authority and may have been originally 3 Open Art Fair appeals January 12 it has made the decision to purchased by Franklin’s wife court ruling on stand Louis XVI-style kingwood, postpone until May 21-22. Deborah. fee marquetry and ormoul mounted 4 Dorset museum raises writing desk in the manner of Paul funds to secure Sormani. Thomas Hardy Estimate: £400-600 Country house auctions archive from London Hammer: £4800 on the way this month book dealer 5 Medal awarded to HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE Golding Young & Mawer is to offer the untouched collection of a Suffragette who threw Warwickshire country house at the end of the month. a lump of iron at Newbold Pacey Hall has been the seat of the Little family Churchill’s car comes Halls, Shrewsbury, January 13 since the house was built by William Little in c.1780-90, when he up at auction Nineteenth century English School inherited the site and an older, probably Tudor house. Both the portrait of a young lady wearing a blue Grade II-listed mansion and its contents are up for sale. dress and a red shawl, oil on canvas, 3ft Among the highlights of the two-day auction on January 27-28 x 2ft 4in (91 x 71cm), relined. is a portrait of William Little, c.1826, by Thomas Kirkby (1796- Estimate: £100-150 c.1847) estimated at £1000-2000. Hammer: £2300 Other highlights include a Barraud of Cornhill George III mahogany longcase clock estimated at £1500-2000 and a late 17th-early 18th century Japanned cabinet estimated at £3000- 5000. Among the Grand Tour-related items in the sale are two pictures by Jacob More (1740-93), including The Falls of Tivoli In Numbers Reeman Dansie, Colchester, which is estimated at £20,000-30,000. January 13 Handwritten First World War Grand Tour via virtual diaries of the British military Also with a Grand Tour theme, but this time with a modern slant, 14 nurse Sister Lillian CA Robison, the auction of the contents of a 17th century Grade I-listed country 1915-18. house, Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire, is being held by Dreweatts. The number of works from the Estimate: £30-50 As reported in ATG No 2471, Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of a hoard discovered in Cornelius Hammer: £1400 Modern Grand Tour will take place on January 20-22. Gurlitt’s Munich flat in 2012 The auction house has created a virtual tour of the home, that have been conclusively powered by technology firm Matterport, which shows each identified and returned to their Ramsay Cornish, room with the lots in situ. Clicking on any of them brings up its original owner heirs. The last Edinburgh, January 9 catalogue description. of these works, Das Klavierspiel Waller Hugh Paton Laura Chesters (Playing the Piano) by Carl (Scottish 1828-1895), Spitzweg, which was owned The Falls of Tummel, by music publisher Henri watercolour, signed and Hinrichsen, was consigned to dated September 6, 1877. Left: The Falls Christie’s last week by his heirs, Estimate: £100-150 of Tivoli by according to the BBC. Hammer: £1050 Jacob More – estimate Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for January 7-13, 2021. Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for January 8-16, 2019. £20,000-30,000 ‘Highest multiple over top estimate’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer at Golding prices‘Highest as price a multiple over estimate’ of the high= Our estimate selection paidof items by internet from the bidders top 10 highest on thesaleroom.com hammer prices as a ‘Topmultiple selling of the lots’ high = estimateOur selection paid by of internet items frombidders the on top thesaleroom.com 20 highest hammer prices paid by Young & Mawer. internet‘Top selling bidders lots’ = on Our thesaleroom.com selection of items from the top 10 highest hammer prices paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com
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PAGE 008-009 2476.indd 2 15/01/2021 15:34:30 Feature Jewellery Jewels of 2021 Covid-19 may have played havoc with the jewellery fairs and auction calendar but it has done little to dull the appetite for quality antique and vintage pieces. Last year’s trends – high gold prices and exceptional demand for coloured gemstones and jewellery by celebrated ateliers – look set to continue in From Karl to Susan 2021. Here Roland Arkell previews sales. Christie’s New York (25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) holds an online sale of Chanel fashion jewellery that closes on January 29. The Susan and Karl of the auction title references Susan Gutfreund and the couturier Karl Lagerfeld, who personally gave her costume jewels made for the Chanel runway. Fabergé novelty Many of these pieces are prototypes from the late 20th century, not originally intended for a retail consumer. As such, This gold, silver and enamel pendant locket to be many of the lots are fragile (and may not withstand regular wear offered by Fellows (23/15% buyer’s premium) in or use) but most are rarities. This pair of oversized earrings, Birmingham on January 21 is modelled as an officer’s each designed as a faux pearl suspending a gilt metal and resin helmet of the Russian Imperial Guard. Opening to urn, 4½in (11cm) high, is estimated at $3000-5000. reveal two compartments, it has the mark of Erik christies.com August Kollin (1836-1901), the head work master at Fabergé from 1872-86. A handful of these novelties, made for the loved ones of imperial guardsmen, are known including another in the Hermitage and the example from the Hammer collection Hair to the throne that sold at Sotheby’s for £5000 in November 2019. According to its label from the Russian Exhibition held The contents sale of in New York and Chicago in 1933-34, the latter was from Newbold Pacey Hall in the playroom of Tsesarevich Alexei at Alexander Palace Warwickshire by Golding and originally contained photographs of Nicholas II and the empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Young & Mawer (24% Fellows expects its example to bring £1800-2400. buyer’s premium) on The Imperial Guard, the bulk of the regiments stationed in and around St Petersburg January 27-28 includes in peacetime, was disbanded after the October Revolution in 1917. Ben Randall, specialist this rare collection of at Fellows, says it is “a delight to be able to offer something with such emotive narrative hair lockets. encapsulated in such a small piece”. Each in a labelled fellows.co.uk gold frame, they purport to offer locks of hair from Edward IV, George II, George III, Queen Charlotte, Ernest Still buying, still selling, King of Hanover, George IV, William but now in New Bond Street. IV and The Duke of After over 100 years in Hatton Garden, Wellington. we have moved to new offices in the West End Samples of hair from the Wars of the Roses monarch Edward IV’s tomb were collected when his tomb was rediscovered in March 1789 during the restoration of St George’s Chapel, Windsor. When the lead coffin was opened tufts of long brown hair were found near the skull, with shorter hair of the same colour on the neck of the skeleton. The collection is offered together with an account of the opening of another We buy and sell all types of fine jewellery, royal exhumation at Windor Castle – that of Charles I on April 1, 1813 – as penned silver and objets d’art. by the royal physician Sir Henry Halford who was witness to the occasion.
PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL: The estimate is £1500-2500. Landsberg & Son (Antiques) Ltd. Newbold Pacey Hall has been the seat of the Little family since the house was Second Floor, 45-46 New Bond Street, London W1S 2SF. built by William Little in c.1780-90. Tel: 020 7404 4945. Fax: 020 7430 1853. Email: [email protected] Web: www.landsbergandson.co.uk goldingyoung.com
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PAGE 010,12 2476.indd 2 14/01/2021 16:32:34 BATEMANS of STAMFORD Over 50 years experience AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS specialising in coats of arms The Saleroom, Ryhall Road, Stamford, Lincs. PE9 1XF With over 10,000 coats of arms, crests & monograms seal engraved JEWELLERY & WATCHES, SILVER & GOLD SALE Friday 19th February 10am Featuring a unique 22ct gold Cadbury’s ‘Conundrum’ egg, created by Garrard & Co, London 18 carat signet LIVE ONLINE-ONLY SALE ring seal engraved
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Finely engraved and enamelled in translucent green, blue, orange and white, with various imagery Rodney J Rigby F.I.P.G including a cat, weather vane, stars, mice, a castle and a treasure hunter finding a golden egg. Hallmarked for Garrard & Co, London 1983, total weight 323.6g, in original presentation box, Goldsmith & Designer and with a copy of ‘Conundrum, The Cadbury’s Creme Egg Mystery’. Hand & seal engraver Previously sold by Batemans in July 2017 Handmade signet rings, cuff links £15,000 - £20,000 & bespoke 3D blazer buttons (plus 20% BP*) in gold, silver & platinum 01780 766466 • batemans.com T: 01892 724951 www.rodneyjrigby.com BP* - Buyer’s premium of 20% incl. VAT @ 20% plus potential additional charges. Please see website for full details and fully illustrated online catalogue
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A selection of period and vintage jewellery lots 5. Micro mosaic brooch decorated with the Doves of Pliny 10. Silver and enamel butterfly brooch, John Aitken & Son, for sale in January, February and March. in original Charles Frodsham retail box, Birmingham, 1916, £60-90 at Cottees, Poole, January 23. £600-800 at Charterhouse, Sherborne, February 4-5. 1. Grand Tour amethyst intaglio in 9ct gold mount by 11. Late Victorian gold wirework and amethyst ring Edward Vaughton, Chester 1901, estimate £200-300 at 6. Archaeological revival bangle, c.1870, with gold wire and clip earrings, £100-150 at Railtons, Wooler, Gerrards, Lytham St Annes, January 21-22. and beadwork decoration and lapis lazuli boules, cased Northumberland, January 23. by A Tanfani, Roma, £1000-1500 at Chorley’s, Prinknash 12. Art Nouveau 15ct gold and green tourmaline 2. Mid-20th century silver, bi-coloured gold and sapphire Abbey, March 23-24. compact by Boucheron, £120-180 at the Fellows timed pendant on a 9ct gold chain, £60-80 at Hansons, Etwall, online sale closing on February 11. 7. Regency gold guard chain with gem set gloved hand Derbyshire on February 1-4. clasp, £200-300 at Catherine Southon on February 24. 3. Art Deco diamond and platinum double-clip bow 13. 1970s 18ct yellow gold sapphire and pearl brooch, brooch in a Boodle and Dunthorne, Lord Street, Liverpool 8. Early 20th century, 15ct yellow gold Albert chain £250-300 at Denhams, Horsham, January 27-28. box, £1200-1800 at Special Auction Services, Newbury, bracelet in retail box, opening bid of £700 at William 14. Silver, bi-coloured gold and sapphire compact by January 21. George, Bedford, in an online sale closing January 29. Cartier, 2½ x 2in (6 x 4.5cm), £400-600 at McTear’s in 4. Yellow metal and diamond brooch modelled as a violin, 9. 18ct gold, enamel and diamond sweetheart brooch Glasgow on January 21. £1000-1500 at the Jacobs & Hunt, Liss, Hampshire, timed for the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, £200-250 at online sale ending January 25. Lockdales, Ipswich, January 23-24.
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PAGE 013 2376.indd 1 15/01/2021 10:45:19 Auction Reports Hammer highlights
Magna Carta shines in silver ‘Exceptional’ Victorian piece that made £56,000 leads a look at recent notable sale results
by Roland Arkell
Hansons’ (25% buyer’s premium) 1 Derbyshire Fine Art Sale in Etwall on December 7-8 included an exceptional piece of Victorian silver: a sculptural group by Hunt & Roskell. 3 Marked to all elements for London 1880, the subject, modelled by George A Carter (1841-1918), 2 depicts King John signing the Magna Carta in front of three barons, the Archbishop of Canterbury and two pages. According to the presentation plaque, which includes a vignette of the Tower of London, it was given 1. Victorian silver sculptural group by Hunt & Roskell – £56,000 at to the marine engineer Liberal MP Hansons. Joseph d’Aguilar Samuda (1813-85) 2. Cartier gold, silver and onyx desk clock and weather station – in 1880 by a large number of his friends £24,000 at Dreweatts. and former constituents in the Tower Hamlets in recognition of the important 3. Early Victorian ink stand with a Wordsworth family presentation services he has rendered to the borough. inscription – £4800 at Dreweatts. The walnut stand on which it sits 4. Indian colonial tureen by George Gordon of Madras (with detail is carved with the Samuda coat-of- of mark inset) – £4800 at Dreweatts. 4 arms. Exhibited at the South Kensington 5. Pair of Queen Anne tapersticks – £4600 at Roseberys. Museum (later the V&A) in 1884, it 6. 17th century Dutch silver beaker – £28,000 at Bonhams. was sold by a descendant together 7. Mazarine and cover by Harald Nielsen for Georg Jensen – with an eight leaf illuminated £37,500 at Huntly Auctions. presentation manuscript and a guide of £20,000-30,000. It did rather 8. Early 18th century Austrian parcel gilt tumbler cup – £1200 at better, selling at £56,000. Kingham & Orme. Warwick vase style Unlike January (deprived of two the City of Delft were published on 29 July arrived for an early Victorian silver major specialist sales following A[nn]o 1663 and (alongside six names) shaped oblong inkstand made in postponements at Woolley & Wallis These are the promoters of our exams and the Dutch naturalistic taste by the and Lawrences of Crewkerne), orders whereby this city will create good Barnard family (London 1840). December offered plenty for the silver Huntly Auctions school teachers, under the wise guidance The design, measuring 15in (38cm) buyer. quickly ran out of of our Magistrate who are good enough to across the handles, includes a central Silver in the sale of Fine “ enter into their new job for the benefit of detachable taperstick and it seemed Decorative Arts 1200-1900 at phone bids for a rare society. to have gained further admirers for a Bonhams (27.5/25% buyer’s Georg Jensen Groen became a master of the presentation inscription reading The premium) on December 18 was mazarine and cover Delft silversmiths’ guild in 1646, and Gift of the Rev’d Cr. Wordsworth, Master topped at £50,000 by a pair of Paul was four times appointed assayer, the of Trinity Col. Cam. to E&D Quillinan Storr wine coolers (London 1821) last time in 1668. This fine example July 6, 1841. modelled in the form of the Warwick of his output was guided at £3000- Christopher Wordsworth (1774- vase. They weighed 216oz and stood 4000 but sold at £28,000. 1846) was an English divine and 8in (20cm) high. 8 scholar and the youngest brother However, alongside its set-piece of Storr soup plates of the poet William Wordsworth. Georgian and Victorian plate, this The sale at Dreweatts (25% buyer’s Edward Quillinan (1791-1851), sale was also memorable for an 8in premium) in Donnington Priory on himself a poet, was William’s (20cm) 17th century Dutch silver December 8 included a set of twelve champion and (after marrying his beaker by the Delft silversmith Pieter 10in (25cm) silver hexafoil soup daughter Dora) his son-in-law. This Groen. Its theme is education. plates by Paul Storr. inkstand is thought to have been a Dated 1667, it was made at a time With clear marks for London 1813, wedding present. when the Dutch education system these also had crisp crests of an eagle Estimated at an appealing was becoming secularised. The preying on a partridge (the same £400-600, it took £4200. underside of the base is engraved with design as a crest used by the Biss Of particular interest for its marks a scene of a teacher and his pupils. family). The hammer price was well – those of George Gordon who Translated into English, the above hopes at a healthy £17,000. traded from 18 Popham’s Broadway inscriptions read The School Orders in Unexpected levels of competition in Madras from 1821-45 – was an 14 | 23 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 014-16 2476.indd 1 14/01/2021 15:36:26 Jensen mazarine Left: Haida or Tlingit grease bowl Georg Jensen tableware is similarly a – £26,000 at John Nicholson’s. market of its own. Aberdeenshire firm Huntly Below: Fijian priest’s yaqona bowl Auctions (15% buyer’s premium) of (with label also shown) – £4600 Turriff quickly ran out of phone bids at Rendells. 5 for a rare silver mazarine and cover that was offered on November 24 as part of the effects from a Highlands estate. Measuring over 18in (46cm) across, its most striking feature was Tribal a stylised finial formed as a bird feeding on a branch of berries. The scarce design is by Harald Nielsen vessel (1892-1977), with London import marks for 1937 underlining this was surprises a pre-war piece rather than a later issue. Two exceptional examples of Much admired by all who viewed ethnographic art – one from the 6 it in Turriff or online for its size, north-west coast of America, the style and condition, it provoked a other for Polynesia – sold in the bidding contest that began around UK regions on December 17. Both the low estimate of £1500 but ended made prices way above token estimates. at £37,500. Although described as ‘possibly Maori’ and estimated at just £20-30, a 9in (18cm) carved wooden vessel offered by John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s Tapersticks burn bright premium) in Haselmere was more probably by the Haida or Tlingit peoples. Silver at Roseberys’ (25% buyer’s Grease bowls such as this were used to serve food – the largest vessels made premium) Fine and Decorative for great feasts, the smaller domestic bowls used in the family home. Typically, 7 sale on November 25 enjoyed a 95% they held ‘eulachon’ (candlefish oil) or rendered seal oil, an important food source selling rate. used as an accompaniment to the dried fish or meats. Estimated to make £1000-1500 It was spotted by a number of knowledgeable bidders and sold for £26,000. was a pair of 8in (20cm) Queen Anne The buyer was from Canada. tapersticks with marks for Thomas Merry, London 1709. Made in the Intoxicating in Fiji Britannia standard silver compulsory At Rendells (18% buyer’s premium) of Ashburton in Devon on the same day at the time, these were in very a Fijian hardwood libation vessel carved in the form of a duck sold at £4600 nice condition and went on to take (estimate £150-200). £4600. As detailed by an old collection label, this refined priest’s vessel for drinking Merry, who was active from yaqona (the intoxicating liquor of the pepper plant) had been acquired on the 1701-24, appears to have been a island of Viti Levu by a Rev Benedict – presumably one of the many missionaries specialist candlestick maker, with who travelled to Polynesia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to put an end many assuming this model with an to pagan ceremonies. octagonal base and baluster stem. Some of the pieces they brought back as souvenirs were hugely inventive: a Indian colonial tureen and cover. Sold at £2600 was an impressive similar vessel taking the form of a man was ‘borrowed’ by Christopher Dresser Standing 8in (20cm) and weighing George II twin-handled cup and made in Linthorpe pottery and cast in iron. just over 32oz, its nulled decoration decorated to both the lower half An equivalent duck-form Fijian priest’s bowl in the Sainsbury collection is was punctuated by a finial cast as an and the cover with scroll and foliate described as one of only four of its type known. armorial. In very nice condition, it motifs. Standing 12in (30cm) high took £2600 (estimate £300-500). and weighing 66oz, it had rubbed However, few pieces in the sale maker’s marks for London 1737. could compete with the timeless draw of early 20th century Cartier. Mannerist and more Hit the Deck for Orientalism As noted in a presentation Kingham & Orme (23% buyer’s inscription, a 4½in (11cm) high silver, premium) dedicated the first sale This Mamluk-style pottery basin decorated with a band of kufic script is in fact gold and onyx desk accoutrement was day of three from December 3-5 in the creation of the French ‘father of art pottery’ Theodore Deck (1823-91). given as a gift by British industrialist, Evesham to nearly 500 lots of silver Inspired by the zeitgeist of Orientalism which pervaded French society in the financier and Member of Parliament and jewellery. second half of the 19th century, he was famed for Middle Eastern-type artefacts Henry Mond (1898-1949), the 2nd Two early Continental pieces with bright glazes mimicking those found on Iznik and other Islamic ceramics. Baron Melchett, to his long time of silver gilt were of particular This 16in personal assistant PW Cushion after note. An 8in (20cm) high cup and (38cm) bowl 45 years’ service. It came by direct cover of typical Mannerist form displays the descent. and decoration was marked for the deep turquoise he With import marks for 1912, to Nuremburg silversmith David Lauer developed, known each of the four sides was a dial or Laue, c.1590, while an Austrian as ‘bleu de Deck’. comprising clock, thermometer, tumbler cup engraved with three At Hannam’s (23% barometer and perpetual calendar. pastoral vignettes was struck for buyer’s premium) in Although it had been poorly Johannes Sottenreich, Vienna 1712. Selborne, Hampshire, maintained (and the box and travel The former sold just shy of the low on January 4 it more case are not by Cartier), it sailed estimate at £5700, while the latter, than doubled hopes over a guide of £2500-3500 to bring with a provenance to SJ Phillips, to bring £4200. £24,000. made £1200. n antiquestradegazette.com 23 January 2021 | 15
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‘Attagirls’ items fly high at two auctions
Memorabilia relating to members of a Logbooks in demand pioneering elite group of female pilots At Exeter saleroom Bearnes who flew in the Second World War Hampton & Littlewood (23% soared over estimates at two auction buyer’s premium) on December houses, writes Tom Derbyshire. 15, six pilot’s logbooks belonging to The Air Transport Auxiliary, Rosemary Rees MBE (1906-95), responsible for delivering new or another of the eight original ATA repaired planes to RAF bases around women, took £7400 against an the country during the war, used an estimate of £400-600. initial team of eight women pilots, Brian Goodison-Blanks of BHL to free up time for fighter pilots to said: “A private collector in the UK concentrate on training. outbid all of the competition on the phone. Above left: Joan Hughes of the Intrepid flier “They had also been interested in Air Transport Auxiliary with her An MBE medal awarded to one of the medal in Honiton [at Chilcotts – MBE and other ephermera above them – Flight Lieutenant Joan Lily see left] but as it had been presented right – £5800 at Chilcotts. Amelia Hughes (1918-93) – was sold post war, their interest in the period by Chilcotts (21% buyer’s premium) Left: six pilot’s logbooks logbooks was greater.” in Honiton on December 12 for belonging to Rosemary Rees MBE The logbooks dated from June £5800 (estimate £200-300). of the ATA – £7400 at Bearnes 25, 1933 (Trial Lesson in a Club Cadet) Hughes, who was the youngest of Hampton & Littlewood. to June 23, 1947, and were offered the group nicknamed the ‘Attagirls’, together with a leather flying helmet, flew nearly 100 different craft leather gloves, two photograph including Stirling and Lancaster albums, photographs of Rees as a bombers (with the help of a cushion dancer and related ephemera and and an engineer to help her reach the books on flying. levers and controls). at Abridge. She was just 15 when she Spitfire and a jet aircraft (but was Rees began her early career as a The MBE was sold together with a took her first solo flight in a Gypsy killed in a demonstration accident in dancer travelling around the world Pike Trophy medal awarded in 1980 One Moth biplane, securing her 1946). and performing in Ceylon, China and a related scrapbook. licence at 17 to become the youngest After the war she began a career as and the US. Hughes had become interested flyer in England. a stunt pilot – flying Kenneth More’s After her trial lesson in 1933 she in flying after her brother Douglas She went on to become a flying spitfire in Reach for the Sky (1956) gained her full licence after only six started learning, and she asked if instructor, training with Rosamund and a replica of the diminutive 1909 hours of flying time. By the time she she could do it too. They both learnt King Everard-Steenkamp of the Demoiselle in Those Magnificent Men in joined the ATA she had obtained with the East Anglian Flying Club ATA, the first woman to pilot a Their Flying Machines (1965). her instructor’s licence and over 600 She stood in for George Peppard hours flying time. during the dogfight movie The Blue As one of the first female pilots Max (1966) and served as Lady of the ATA she began to fly a wide Right: Jacobite Penelope’s stunt pilot in the original range of aircraft including Spitfires, roundels Thunderbirds series, famously flying Hurricanes and Mosquitos as well as featuring under a bridge on the M40 motorway larger four engine aircraft. portraits of while under construction in 1967, In 1941 she became deputy to Charles Edward a daring deed for which she was Margot Gore at the all-female ferry and Henry prosecuted but was later cleared of all pool at Hamble-on-Solent, eventually Benedict Stuart charges. flying 91 different types of aircraft. – £19,500 at Stride & Son. Waterfall bookcases Souvenir suitable for a Jacobite flow well These Jacobite roundels carry the portraits of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-88) and The sale at W&H Peacock (17.5% his brother Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807). The Bonnie Prince is shown in his buyer’s premium) in Bedford on youthful pomp, shortly before 1745 and all that, while Henry, the final Jacobite heir January 1 included, estimated at to publicly claim the thrones of England and Scotland, appears as an adolescent. £200-300, this pair of mahogany Both Stuart brothers spent much of their lives in Italy (both were born, raised waterfall-style bookcases (right). and died in Rome) and it is likely that these portrait plaques, rendered in alabaster A popular form, with adjustable with octagonal ebonized and brass mounted frames, were made c.1740 to appeal to pine shelves, turned feet and brass Jacobite milords enjoying the Grand Tour. castors, they also gained much from Each of the 12in (30cm) roundels suspended bronze medals reading Legitimacy being a pair and an accessible size of the Jacobite Succession. at 3ft (89cm) wide. Despite their The rare pair were guided at £2000-3000 at Stride & Son (18% buyer’s premium) outwardly tired condition (one leg is of Chichester on December 18. However, multiple admirers and keen bidding took missing as are some mouldings) they the pair to £19,500. promised to restore well. The hammer price was £4800. 16 | 23 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 014-16 2476.indd 3 14/01/2021 15:47:51 Exhibiting digitally at London Art Fair: Edit and digitally in-gallery online Artists include David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Ivon Hitchens, Jenny Saville, Patrick Heron and David Bomberg, amongst many others
Yellow Glade No. 2 by Ivon Hitchens www.castlegatehouse.co.uk Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria CA13 9HA. Tel: 01900 822149 [email protected]
Fine Art Sale 28/29th January
A Ben Nicholson 1930. Gouache £3,000-5,000 Beryl Cook, 1978, Oil, £12,000-16,000 John Opie RA, £3,000-5,000 One of three works
B Laura Knight, Study of Ella Naper, c.1913. Oil on canvas. A highly important work from her ‘Self portrait with Nude’ period. From Naper’s estate. Dod Procter £3,000- £60,000-£80,000 5,000 One of two works A. Breon O’Casey £1,000-2,000. B. Alfred Wallis £10,000-15,000 Bryan Pearce 1978 Ex-Dannatt collection C £5,000-8,000 1 of 6 works Bryan Pearce C. John Erskine Milne, £2,000-4,000, 1 of 6 works from the artist’s estate. £4,000-6,000 John Maltby An exceptional, two-day, online auction of Newlyn School, Lamorna, St Ives and 1 of 6 works 1 of 2 works Modern British plus 18th & 19th century art, sculpture and studio ceramics.
The Penzance Auction House, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4RE David Wynne tel: +44 (0)1736 - 361414 Bronze, 1/4 e: [email protected] Over 750 lots £30,000-40,000 www.davidlay.co.uk
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Striking a pose for nearly 50 years Life model depicted by Freud, Auerbach and even Lennon amassed her own art collection
by Alex Capon 1
A group of works from the collection of the life model June Furlong proved a sell-out at Hansons (25% buyer’s premium) at the end of last year. All 59 lots in the consignment got away, raising a total of £42,000. While the provenance and attractive estimates ensured decent interest throughout, one lot in particular commanded hefty bidding and provided over half the total raised. Furlong, who was from Liverpool, began as an artist’s model aged 17 after the painter Don McKinlay suggested that she pose for students at Liverpool College of Art (now part of Liverpool John Moores University). 2 As her obituary in The Times noted: “For close to 50 years she took her 3 clothes off for almost every artist who passed through Liverpool.” They included a young John Lennon who studied at the college in the late 1950s. Furlong also spent a five-year spell in London, modelling at the Slade and the Royal College of Art. Among the aspiring artists who painted her there were Lucian Freud, who described her as “an exotic creature with a deep penetrating mind”, and Frank Auerbach. She kept modelling until she was 65 and remained active on the Liverpool art scene throughout her life, organising exhibitions and publishing an autobiography titled 4 June – a Life Study in 2000. She died in November last year aged 90. 1 & 2. Two of the five etchings by Frank Auerbach from the collection of the model Quick turn-around June Furlong that sold together for £26,000 at Hansons. The consignment came about after a 3. Oil on board of Furlong by George Jardine – £380. contact of Hansons’ head of fine art Adrian Rathbone was assigned to 4. Drawing of Furlong by Jardine – £90. oversee the estate. The turn-around 5. The Palace of the Mermaids by Jardine – £2100. was relatively quick and the lots 6. Scrowbrook, Kirk Ireton by George Turner of Derby – £3200. were offered in the firm’s December 10-11 auction at Bishton Hall in Staffordshire. For close to 50 years he had made at the Royal College of Around 12 sets of the six prints Among the Furlong lots was a she took her clothes Art or at the Borough Polytechnic were produced in all and most ended group of five monochrome prints “ in the 1950s. Auerbach chose six out up with Auerbach’s friends and fellow off for almost every depicting female nudes by Frank of the several hundred drawings he artists. While it is not known how Auerbach (b.1931). Offered together artist who passed had done (the majority of which were Furlong acquired her set of five, it is but lightly catalogued and estimated through Liverpool later destroyed) and reproduced them believed that she was the model for at £800-1200, a number of parties on small square alloy plates using a one of the etchings. The one missing recognised that were in fact part of nail set into a pen holder. from her set was that in which she a set of six works that represent the All of the prints, for which he had was thought to be the sitter. artist’s earliest recorded works as a used the back of a spoon to rub down In any case though, the appearance printmaker. the dampened wove paper, were of any of these prints on the market The 6 x 6in (15 x 15cm) etchings effectively proofs as there was no is a rare event. The lot generated were all based on life drawings that published edition. considerable pre-sale interest and an 18 | 23 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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painting of her in profile, probably from around the same date. The 10½ x 13½in (27 x 34cm) signed oil on West portrayed by Bone board was pitched at £200-300 and was knocked down at £380. A miniature by Henry Bone The top price for Jardine overall in (1755-1834) depicting the the collection came for The Palace of American artist Benjamin the Mermaids, a larger work that was West (1738-1820) was among more representative of his Surrealist the notable lots at the recent output. While his earlier paintings Hansons sale at Bishton Hall were influenced by the landscape (also see main story left). of the north-west and by arists such Painted in enamel on as Paul Nash and Edward Bawden, copper, it dated from 1803 and an exhibition of Surrealist art at was signed by Bone. It came Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery in to auction with an intriguing 1936 also had a dramatic effect. provenance. 5 intense bidding battle emerged as a This 23½in (60cm) square oil On the back of the 7 x 5¾in number of trade and private bidders and mixed media on board was a (18 x 14.5cm) miniature (right) from both the UK and Europe took colourful exposition of that fact was an inscription stating that part on the phone and online. The lot and had some trademark features – it was based on an original was eventually knocked down to a including fantastical female figures. self-portrait that West painted private UK collector at £26,000. Estimated at £2000-3000, it in 1800, with the artist showing The price compares to the sold at £2100 to a London-based himself as very much the £35,000 for a full set of the six prints private buyer who bought a number academic figure seated at his desk with a classical bust behind. sold from the collection of artist of works by Jardine at the sale. On separate backing paper which accompanied the lot was another inscription RB Kitaj at Christie’s in February Although the competition did not stating that West had given it as gift to his daughter-in-law, Mrs Raphael West, 2008. Of the handful of occasions extend too far into the estimate, in 1820. According to the Hansons’ catalogue, the vendor’s late husband was when single copies from the set the price was the second highest for descended from the West family on his mother’s side. have emerged at auction in the last the artist at auction, only behind Prices for Bone miniatures vary quite widely and, while some can easily reach decade, the highest price was for a larger Surrealist landscape that strong five-figure sums, many also sell for a range of four-figure prices. While an impression sold at Bonhams fetched £2300 at Bonhams in condition, size and date all play a part, the most important factor is normally for £13,000 in June 2015. Further December 2018 (source: Artprice by simply how appealing and rare is the subject. examples made £12,000 and £11,000 Artmarket). Estimated at £3000-5000, this example sold at £5500 to a US buyer. The price in the same sale. was in line with other works by Bone of leading gentlemen of the period – for ATG understands that the buyer at Derbyshire local hero example a miniature of statesman Charles James Fox made £5000 at Christie’s in Hansons is keen to locate an example Outside of the Furlong lots, four November 2019. of the missing sixth print. works by George Turner of Derby (1843-1910) were offered from a Jardine abundant deceased estate for which Rathbone While the etchings proved the had done a probate report a few years undoubted stars, the artist most ago. All sold for a combined £10,600 Wimperis returns after six years represented among the Furlong lots with a Derbyshire private collector was George Jardine (1920-2003). purchasing three of them. Reappearing in the same He was another painter who Uppermost among the group saleroom after a six-year trained at the Royal College of was a landscape showing a father interval, a landscape Art, although he was there earlier and son fishing in a brook near the by Edmund Morison between 1939-43, and met Furlong Derbyshire village of Kirk Ireton. Wimperis (1835-1900) later in his native Liverpool when she A charming scene set nearby to attracted attention at began modelling for him. After her where Turner moved following his a recent auction held retirement from modelling, Jardine wife Eliza’s death in 1900, the 15¾ by Halls (20% buyer’s was one of the artists for whom x 23½in (40 x 60cm) signed oil on premium) of Shrewsbury. Furlong helped organised a show at canvas tipped over its £2000-3000 The 2ft x 3ft (61 x Liverpool Academy of Arts in 2012. estimate, selling at £3200. 92cm) oil on canvas, The Hansons consignment Whether or not Turner truly merits Across the Common, was featured 26 works by the artist which the title of ‘Derbyshire’s Constable’ a vintage example of his airy views painted on one of his visits to southern England included four portraits of Furlong. as mentioned in the pre-sale and Wales. Commercially, the presence of figures walking was a bonus which, While a pen drawing depicting her publicity, his most commercial works together with its good size, raised it above the artist’s more run-of-the-mill fare. in 1976 took £90 (est: £50-100), are those that best portray the rural Signed with the artist’s initials and dated ’99, it was a late work that seemed to 6 uppermost among them was a idyll and this picture achieved the encapsulate how the Chester-born illustrator-turned-watercolourist-turned-painter highest price for the artist at had been influenced by the likes of David Cox, Myles Birket Foster and Peter De auction in the last two years. Wint and then incorporated a few distinct touches of his own. As something of a local Like many of Wimperis’ landscapes which have frequently appeared on the favourite, Turner appears market, it was a work that was well known to the trade having previously appeared regularly at Hansons and, at both Phillips and Christie’s (the latter in 1994) and retained labels on the verso indeed, these lots were for two London dealers. followed by another 43 on A more recent auction appearance was that Halls in in April 2014 where it sold offer at the firm’s sale in for £2400. It reappeared on December 9 from a private local collection where, Etwall on December 16. They against a £1000-2000 estimate, it sold at £2100 to a UK online buyer. were led by four works that Despite not being the freshest work – something so important in the Victorian sold for £3000 apiece – all of picture market – the price was not only above average for the artist but it appears them bucolic scenes of either to be the highest auction sum for Wimperis since this picture last sold at Halls. Derbyshire or north Wales. n antiquestradegazette.com 23 January 2021 | 19
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PAGE 020 2476.indd 2 14/01/2021 14:20:58 Fine Art & Chattel Auctioneers Tuesday 26th January at 10am FINE ART & ANTIQUES AUCTION To include: a collection of antique Chinese snuff bottles, silver, ceramics, oil paintings, watercolours and prints, works of art, antique and later furniture and furnishings, etc. PLEASE NOTE: This Auction will take place ONLINE ONLY. No admittance to our premises on auction day. View the catalogue and bid online via www.aldridgesofbath.com and the-saleroom.com Commission bidding and limited telephone bidding also available.
PART OF A COLLECTION OF A MEISSEN DESSERT SERVICE A COLLECTION OF 18thC SIR TERRY FROST (1915-2003) UNTITLED - 1969 £10,000-15,000 + fees CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES DRINKING GLASSES
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Middle East enthrals bidders Nineteenth century travel accounts by European visitors are sold in London auction
by Ian McKay
Top lot in an online travel and natural history auction that ended on November 17 in London was a 20 volume set of the monumental Description de l’Egypte of 1809-22. This was the official account of the great French scientific survey of the country that dealt with everything from antiquities to agriculture. At Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) it sold towards the low end of the estimate range at £170,000, while an 1842-29, six volume, subscriber’s copy of David Roberts’ Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia sold towards the higher end of its guide at £110,000. This was a set Above left: one of the finely preserved coloured plates from a copy of the deluxe issue of Roberts’ Holy Land, Syria, that was free of the spotting Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia sold for £110,000 at Sotheby’s. sometimes found in this deluxe issue. Above right: a plate from the copy of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Palm Trees of the Amazon... sold for a record £12,000. A great many TE Left: an Arabic head-dress once owned by TE Lawrence – £26,000. Lawrence lots were on offer, with letters much in evidence, but the most archaeological work at gifts to friends and family, but this Also illustrated here is a plate expensive was one of 170 Carchemish in Syria in the kaffiyah was brought back from the from a first edition of Alfred Russel copies of the 1926 edition years before the First Middle East by Private Harry Hosker, Wallace’s Palm Trees of the Amazon and of Seven Pillars of Wisdom World War. his driver and batman. their uses. that he signed off as Lawrence’s Lawrence trusted Hosker to Published in London in 1853 and “Complete”. In the adoption of Arab drive his car with a trunk full of illustrated with 48 litho plates by W original brown morocco dress, said the saleroom, gold sovereigns that he used to buy Fitch, it was issued in an edition of binding, it made a low-estimate was practical but also crucial to his off Bedouin tribesmen, but not all just 250 copies and this rare survivor £40,000. mission, which required that he gain these duties were carried out to his set an auction record at £12,000. Sold over estimate at £26,000, the trust of the Arab people. Towards satisfaction, said the cataloguer. Wallace lost a great many of however, was an ivory silk kaffiyah, the end of the war he tended to wear Lawrence apparently complained his natural history drawings and or head-dress. Lawrence famously more elaborate costume and by the about Hosker’s culinary skills, specimens when his ship sank on the wore Arab costume during the time he returned to Europe after the especially his inability to cook return to voyage to Europe, but his Arab Revolt, although he had first war he had assembled a substantial porridge. In 1996, when last seen at notes and illustrations of Amazonian discovered how well suited it was collection, Sotheby’s, this kaffiyah was part of a palm trees were among those things to desert life while undertaking Lawrence made a number of costume sale. that were salvaged. n
Hugs and kisses, Christopher Robin Right: sketch of Christopher Mounted in an autograph book that was Ephemeral material included a collection Robin by EH compiled from 1937 onwards by Miss Joyce of around 30 catalogues, brochures, price Shepard– Cartmell, a sketch of Christopher Robin was a lists, etc, that made £2100 rather than the £3800 at highlight of a November 18 sale in Yorkshire suggested £60-80. Like the example illustrated Tennants. Signed by EH Shepard and accompanied by here, they were mostly issued by Fortnum & a note on his headed notepaper reading “with ♥ Mason, but Crosse & Blackwell, Harvey Nichols, Far right: and xx from Christopher Robin”, it made £3800 and Bellerby of York, wallpaper manufacturers, Fortnum in a November 18 book sale held by Tennants were also featured, along with playing card & Mason (20% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn. designs by Macmichaels. brochure, The sale’s most expensive lot, at £5400, Bid to £1400 was a collection of some 47 which was an 1848 first (second issue) copy of Anne photographs focused on the ‘Great Week of featutred in Brontë’s Tennant of Wildfell Hall, the three Aviation at Heliopolis’ in Egypt in 1910, an event a group of volumes bound in half calf gilt. that – with the exception of a few flights in ephemera – Well-bound individual works and literary North Africa made by French pilots in late 1909 £2100. sets were a notable feature of the sale overall. – marked the first flights in the Arab world.
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Very earliest Christmas Carol British and Irish book auctions Jan 20-21 4 Antiquarian & other Books, Maps, 1sts, Children’s, etc, Dominic Winter - S Cerney 01285 860006 There were, inevitably, a few copies of Charles Jan 20* 4 A Library sold in Cartons - 100-lot Section, James & Son - Fakenham 01328 855003 Dickens’ much-loved tale, A Christmas Carol, on offer Jan 20* 4 37-lot Book Section, Cuttlestones - Wolverhampton 01902 421985 at auction as the big day approached. Among them Jan 20, 27 & 29* 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 was an example of the very earliest issue offered Jan 20-21* 4 23 lots Books & Ephemera, Burstow & Hewett - Battle 01424 772374 as part of a November 12 sale held by Freeman’s Jan 21 4 Online Sale: Books from the Library of Brian Findlay, Forum Auctions - London 020 7717 5092 (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Philadelphia. Jan 21* 4 120-lot Book Section, Golding Young & Mawer - Lincoln 01522 524984 In the original gilt and blind stamped brown cloth Jan 21* 4 22-lot Book & Map Sections, Auction Antiques - Exeter 0207 1833 511 binding with two small stains on front board (right), Jan 21* 4 6 lots Books, Mallams - Cheltenham 01242 235712 this 1843 copy showed some soiling to John Leech’s Jan 21-22* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera, Adam Partridge - Macclesfield 01625 431788 frontispiece illustration of ‘Mr Fezziwig’s Ball’ and to Jan 22* 4 6 lots Books & Ephemera, Brighton & Hove Auctions - Brighton 01273 230050 the title-page, along with scattered minor spotting Jan 22* 4 Football Programmes: Sports Memorabilia, The Auction Centre - Runcorn 01928 579796 to text and plates. It nevertheless sold at $16,000 Jan 23* 4 16-lot Book & Ephemera Section, Semley Auctioneers - Shaftesbury 01747 855122 (£14,545). Jan 23* 4 14 lots Books & Ephemera, Railtons - Wooler 01668 283000 Another first-issue copy sold for £8500 in a Jan 23* 4 6 lots Books & Maps, John Nicholson’s - Haslemere 01428 653727 November 18, Forum sale of books from the Rugby Jan 24* 4 8 lots Books, Maps & Ephemera, Paul Alexander - Dunfermline 01383 824917 School Library. ends Jan 24* 4 9 lots Books & Ephemera, 1818 Auctioneers - Milnthorpe 01539 566201 Many copies of this perennial best-seller have Jan 25* 4 13 lots Books & Ephemera, Stacey’s - Rayleigh 01268 777122 made a great deal more and three have brought six- Jan 26* 4 15 lots Cornish & other Books & Ephemera, Barbara Kirk - Penzance 01736 361342 figure bids. In October 2010, at Sotheby’s in London, Jan 26* 4 13-lot Book Section, Cotswold Auction Co - Cirencester 01242 256363 a copy that Dickens inscribed for his great friend, the actor and stage manager Jan 26* 4 8-lot Book & Map Section, Rogers Jones - Colwyn Bay 01492 532176 William Macready, made a record £150,000. Jan 26-27* 4 9 lots Books & Maps, Victor Mee - Belturbet +353 04755076 Jan 28 4 Fine Books, MSS & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7717 5092 Jan 28* 4 200+ lot Library from Newbold Pacey Hall, Golding Young & Mawer - Lincoln 01522 524984 Jan 28* 4 14-lot Book & Map Section, Greenslade Taylor Hunt - Taunton 01823 332525 Jan 28-Feb 4 Detective Fiction: incl. Alexis Galanos Coll’n, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 297 Jan 30* 4 19-lot Book & Ephemera Section, Stamford Auction Rooms - Stamford 01780 411485 Jan 30* 4 Map Section: Transport Memorabilia Sale, Transport Auctions - London 01737 237505 ends Jan 30* 4 Book Section, Thimbleby & Shorland - Reading 0118 950 8611 ends Jan 31* 4 Paper & Ephemera Sections, Southgate Auctions - London 020 8886 7888 ends Jan 31* 4 10 lots Books & Ephemera, 1818 Auctioneers - Milnthorpe 01539 566201 Feb 2-3* 4 Boxed lots of Books, Thomas N Miller - Newcastle 0191 265 8080 Feb 3* 4 185-lot Book Section, incl. Naval, Halls - Shrewsbury 01743 450700 Feb 3* 4 87-lot Book, Magazine & Ephemera Section, Lockdales - Ipswich 01473 627110 Left: the first of American Notes for General Circulation Feb 4* 4 Online: Books & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7717 5092 that Charles Dickens inscribed for Richard Dana (above). Feb 4 4 Books & Ephemera, Stride & Son - Chichester 01243 78207 Feb 4* 4 28 lots Books & Maps, Swan Fine Art - High Wycombe 01844 281777 Feb 4-5* 4 9-lot Book & 15-lot Comic Sections, Hansons - Etwall 01283 733988 Noteworthy Dickens and Feb 4* 4 Book Section, Greenslade Taylor Hunt - Taunton 01823 332525 Feb 4-5* 4 Book Section, Lindsay Burns - Perth 01738 633888 Feb 5* 4 22 lots Books & Ephemera, TW Gaze - Diss 01379 650306 Austen delight in NY 4 ends Feb 5* Royal Memorabilia incl. Letters, William George - Peterborough 01733 667680 Two of the best-selling literary lots in Notes for General Circulation. In a New York sale of November 17 were the original ribbed brown cloth Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger copies of Jane Austen novels. binding, this was a copy with a very sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com Bid to $60,000 (£45,455) at desirable literary association, being Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales Swann Galleries (25/20/12% inscribed “For Richard Dana/ that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: buyer’s premium) was a three- From his friend/Charles Dickens/ Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] decker, 1813 first of Pride and Prejudice Nineteenth October, 1842” on the in a 19th century binding of full half-title of the first volume. It was polished turquoise morocco by additionally signed by Dana on the Rivière. Missing half titles were front pastedowns. supplied in Vol I with an example Shortly after Dickens arrived in from a second edition, and in the Boston in late January 1842, on his other two volumes with facsimiles. first visit to the US, a dinner was held 2021 Book Auction Calendar (January - March): Sold at $46,000 (£34,850) was a in his honour at Papanti’s Dancing copy of Austen’s first published work, Academy. Online Sale: Books from the Library of the Thursday 21st January Sense and Sensibility. This was a novel There Dana, a lawyer, politician late Brian Findlay written in the once popular letter and author of a famous maritime Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 28th January form in 1795 but only much later memoir, Two Years before the Mast, that Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 4th February revised for anonymous publication in had been published anonymously a Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 18th February 1811 – in an edition of no more than a couple of years earlier, was one of the thousand copies. This example was in prominent guests, along with Oliver Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 4th March a later but period style binding of half Wendell Holmes and others. Online Books & Works on Paper Thursday 18th March tan calf and marble boards. Four other copies inscribed by Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 25th March Dickens on or about the same date American note-taker have been sold at auction, including Catalogues and information: forumauctions.co.uk Sold for $28,000 (£21,210) was a one inscribed to another attendee at Contact: +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 | [email protected] first of Charles Dickens’ American that Boston dinner, Josiah Quincy. antiquestradegazette.com 23 January 2021 | 23
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The Modern Home sale at Roseberys London on January 27 features this three-piece electroplated tea set with stamped marks for James Dixon & Sons. The Aesthetic movement design with engine-turned decoration and raised on ball feet is attributed to Christopher Dresser. Estimate £350-450. roseberys.co.uk*
This Boer War Lee Enfield cavalry carbine comes for sale at Lockdales in Ipswich on January 23-24 with hopes of £1600-2000. As well as marks for Enfield 1897 the walnut stock has a butt marker disc stamped XVII (for the 17th Lancers) and 92 (the rifle number). It is possible this rifle was used in the famous stand of the 17th Lancers at Modderfontain on September 17, 1901, immortalised in the painting All that was left of them by Richard Caton Woodville. lockdales.com*
Sworders’ Design sale to be held ‘live online’ on January 26 includes a collection of work by Art Deco giant Jules Leleu (1883-1961). The 10 lots have been consigned by the Greek descendants of Celestine Galani, the The January 28-29 sale at David Lay in wife of shipping magnate John Galani who was a friend of Jules Leleu. Based less than Penzance includes this 21½in x 2ft 5in (55 a mile away from the Maison Leleu which was at 65 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt in Paris, x 73cm) work by Dame Laura Knight. Celestine commissioned him in to decorate her The oil on canvas study, c.1913, entire apartment at 81 Avenue Marceau in the depicts Ella Naper, the model in one of 1940s. the artist’s most important works: Self They include a Feux d’artifice (Fireworks) Portrait with Model of the same date. pattern rosewood and marquetry cabinet It has never been seen on the market (pictured left) and commode. Inlaid in ebony and before, having always hung in the Naper mother-of-pearl marquetry and applied with gilt family home. bronze, these bear comparison with the better- Estimate £60,000-80,000. known work of contemporary Émile-Jacques davidlay.co.uk* Ruhlmann. They carry guides of £10,000-15,000 and £20,000-30,000 respectively. sworder.co.uk*
This 14 x 10in (35 x 25cm) drypoint titled Quartier Latin by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946) is signed in pencil. From an edition of 40 printed c.1927, it is guided at This die-cut and lithographed cardboard floor £1000-1500 at Parker Fine Art Auctions in standing advertising display was made for Whiteway's Farnham on January 21. Devonshire Cyder. It takes the form of a set of traffic parkerfineartauctions.com* lights, about 5ft (1.5m) high, accompanied by a smaller showcard in the form of a young lady holding an oversized apple. At a sale of advertising memorabilia at Chippenham Auction Rooms on January 30 the estimate is £500-800. chippenhamauctionrooms.co.uk*
The property of a lady, this Victorian ormolu mounted burr walnut, tulipwood and ebonised kidney shaped desk, 4ft 4in (1.32m) wide, has an estimate of £1500-2500 at Semley This Modernist Art Deco white metal teaset, marked only Silver, is estimated to bring Auctioneers in Dorset on January 23. £400-600 at Brighton & Hove Auctions on January 22. semleyauctioneers.com* brightonandhoveauctions.co.uk* 24 | 23 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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The Interiors Sale at Dreweatts in Newbury on January This cow horn powder 27 includes this René Lalique Falcon pattern clear glass flask is engraved car mascot. This example of model 1124, designed with the cypher GR c.1925, comes with its original illuminating radiator mount for George III and engraved for Breves Galleries in Knightsbridge. Breves the inscription Adam Galleries was Lalique's London distributor of car mascots, with Starbuck His Horn Pass On Ao 1777... A Pox on all Rebel. To the reverse is an these particular mounts patented in 1929. engraving of the ‘North River’ (the Hudson) with named tributaries and encampments Estimate £300-500. including the Half Moon, Stillwater, Saratoga, Fort Miller and the Royal Block House at dreweatts.com* Fort Edward. These encampments featured in the Saratoga campaign, culminating in the British defeat on October 1777. Forum Auctions says the horn was “almost certainly procured by an American, loyal to the British cause”. On January 28 it is expected to bring £5000-7000. forumauctions.co.uk*
A group of railway posters and signs will be This pair of glazed stoneware garden sold by Railtons in Wooler, Northumberland, bench ends modelled as seated sphinxes on January 23. This early LNER booking office was made by the Doulton Lambeth factory, enquiry sign with moulded pine frame, 2ft 8in c.1900. A similar seat is pictured in Alistair in x 3ft 2in (80 x 95cm), is expected to bring Morris’ Antiques from the Garden (1999). £300-500. After being at the owners' property for railtons.co.uk* approximately 30 years, they come for sale at Rogers Jones in Cardiff on January 22 with hopes of £2500-4000. A selection of car owners’ memorabilia relating mostly to vehicles manufactured in rogersjones.co.uk* Birmingham is estimated at £400-500 at local auction house Fellows on January 25. Mainly focused on cars manufactured at the Longbridge plant, two mid-20th century oak cases include cufflinks, compacts, enamelled This copy of the 1976 Dad’s Army badges, key rings and annual is signed to the inside pages cloth badges. by 11 members of the cast including Austin, MG, Riley and Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, Arnold Ridley, Wolseley were some of the Ian Lavender, Frank Williams, Edward British cars created in the Sinclair and John Laurie. West Midlands, notably at At the sale of autographs at Chaucer Longbridge, throughout Auctions on January 27 it is expected to the 20th century. The sell for £100-140. memorabilia also features chaucerauctions.co.uk* Morris (produced in Oxford). fellows.co.uk*
This late work by Edward Bawden (1903-89), Among the Marsh Arabs, 1986, was printed in an edition of 75 by Hurtwood Press. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, it This set of four 18th century creamware apothecary drug jars, each 7in (18cm) is guided at £300-500 by Modern tall with a metal cover, forms part of a timed online sale held by William George in Art Auctions in Scarborough on Bristol on January 21. The opening bid is £240. January 26. wgandco.com* modernartauctions.co.uk*
Featuring in Reeman Dansie’s two-day Antiques & Fine Art sale on January 26-27 is this William and Mary olive wood oyster veneered miniature chest of drawers, estimate £1000-2000. It is one of around 150 lots in the sale from the estate of the late Jane Sumner, the well-respected dealer who traded with her partner John This 7 x 16in (18 x 40cm) 19th century gouache depicts vessels off the Braund under the banner of Grand Harbour of Valetta in Malta. At Denhams in Horsham, West Sussex, Turpin Antiques. on January 27-28, the guide is £150-200. reemandansie.com* denhams.com* antiquestradegazette.com 23 January 2021 | 25
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1 2 Forsberg finds peace in the world Swedish painter’s stylised alpine view is one of the highlights of Master Drawings New York
other dealer exhibitions planned the main pioneers of naturalistic by Gabriel Berner Works on offer at Master for the latest edition. London landscape in early 17th century Drawings New York dealership Karen Taylor Fine Art Holland, is the focus of an exhibition “It was the first time I found myself 1. Pax by Carl Johan Forsberg – holds a show of 18th and 19th century at New York gallery Mireille Mosler. in front of a glacier, alone in the £50,000 from Stephen Ongpin Fine works on paper that examines ‘the The artist travelled the length and infinite silence and solitude of the Art. world of the imagination of British breadth of the Netherlands recording snow mountain, surrounded by the artists influenced by the picturesque ‘when inspiration struck’ landscapes overwhelming majesty of nature…” 2. Wooded landscape with track and movement and the progression into and topography in small notebooks. Swedish open-air painter Carl pool by Thomas Gainsborough – the romanticism of the 19th century’. Back in his studio, he used his Johan Forsberg (1867-1938) wrote $25,000 from Karen Taylor Fine Art. Included in Romantic Landscape and travel sketches to create imaginary this after painting the highly 3. A town with windmills seen from a the Picturesque Imagination, priced at landscapes in paint and pen. stylised alpine view, shown above, distance by Jan van Goyen (1596- $25,000, is a black chalk drawing The show contains around 30 of the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss 1656) – $20,000 from Mireille Mosler. of a wooded landscape by Thomas drawings in black chalk and grey wash Alps. Titled Pax, it was regarded Gainsborough (1727-88), dated to from the now dispersed sketchbook, by Forsberg as the ‘capo lavoro’ of the mid-1780s. which Van Goyen filled in 1650-51 his life, inspired by an on-the-spot As with Forsberg, Gainsborough’s when he was in his mid-50s. The sketch made in 1903. a reminder of what lies beyond our first love was landscape painting, gallery said the relatively late works The place heightened his sense of walls,” said Ongpin. famously writing in a letter to a friend: present a “different view on the artist’s life’s fragility, as it was here where the Aptly named A Sense of Place, it “I’m sick of portraits and wish very studio practice towards the end of his artist and his wife almost lost their takes place at New York gallery much to take my viol da gamba and prolific career when relatively fewer lives when their horse-drawn carriage Adam Williams Fine Art and walk off to some sweet village where I paintings were produced”. nearly plunged into the raging Rhône includes 70 landscape drawings, can paint landskips and enjoy the fag A diminutive and delicate river during a thunderstorm. Barely watercolours and oil sketches end of life in quietness and ease.” black chalk sketch of a town with noticeable, seated on a small island dating from c.1820-1960 spanning Pages from a sketchbook by Jan windmills is priced at $20,000. n at the left, is the tiny figure of Death movements from the Barbizon van Goyen (1596-1656), one of masterdrawingsnewyork.com with his scythe. School to Impressionism, Post- Priced at £50,000, the Impressionism and beyond. watercolour gouache features in an 3 exhibition of 19th and 20th century Big Apple action landscapes by London gallery A total of 18 dealers will host online Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, which exhibitions as part of MDNY, which forms part of the latest edition of goes live to the public on January 22, Master Drawings New York (MDNY), timed as usual to coincide with the the veteran dealer event held major January/February auctions of annually in the Upper East side of Old Master paintings and drawings Manhattan. in the Big Apple. Though primarily “At a time when many of us have digital this year, MDNY hopes to been asked to remain indoors, we retain a remnant of its physical event have chosen to present a catalogue with a select number of dealers in and exhibition dedicated exclusively New York ‘open by appointment’ to landscapes, in lieu of our usual throughout the week (around 10 as Master Drawings presentation, with ATG went to press). the hope that it will offer respite and The great outdoors has inspired 26 | 23 January 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Dealers lead online charge The web shop window New York’s Americana-focused event and longest-running antiques fair, The Winter Show, Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. holds its 67th edition online from January 22-31 with around 60 exhibitors taking part. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week. Chinese export porcelain specialist Cohen & Cohen is part of a contingent of UK dealers showing and present this newly discovered large Chinese armorial charger, made French artist Roger Broders (1883-1953) for the Scottish market during the early reign of the Emperor Qianlong in c.1740. designed this classic ski poster promoting Priced at $85,000, it is the sixth example one of the oldest ski resorts in France, belonging to a well-known group of chargers Chamonix. It dates to the opening of the painted en grisaille in different designs Chamonix to Planpraz 2000m cable-car in copying European prints and is the only 1928 and shows people enjoying the scenic one known left in private ownership. view from one of its gondola cabins. Hand painted by a Chinese artist Broders worked for the Paris-Lyon- in Canton, it depicts the 1737 print Méditerranée PLM railway company, La Fontaine de Bacchus engraved where he designed posters for many by Jean Moyreau after an oil of the fashionable French summer and painting by Dutch artist Philips winter resorts. For a decade from 1922 Wouwerman (1619-68). he dedicated himself fully to poster art, thewintershow.org though he produced fewer than 100. His distinctive Art Deco designs, characterised by simple lines and bold, flat areas of colour and dramatic mountain and Left: large Chinese armorial seascape backdrops, remain popular with vintage poster collectors. porcelain charger for the Scottish This 3ft 6in x 2ft 6in (1.08m x 76cm) example is offered by vintage poster market – $85,000 from Cohen & Cohen specialist Antikbar, based in Chelsea, and is priced at £4250. at The Winter Show.
antikbar.co.uk 5 Questions Pontormo provides bright Nicholas Wells has moment for me, which showed me I was spark in a grey world run Nicholas Wells ready to go off on my own. Antiques in London This recently discovered grisaille painting of Adam and Eve by the Florentine Mannerist since 2012, selling 3 Who do you admire in the trade? artist Jacopo Carucci (1494-1557), known as Pontormo, is the centrepiece of a new furniture and works The young dealers today are so exhibition of monochromatic works at New York gallery Nicholas Hall. of art primarily in the inspirational – there are a few I’d pick out A prime example of the artist’s private work, the small painting is noted for its unusual British town and country house aesthetic. such as Mark Pargeter, Matthew Holder grisaille technique (rarely used in Pontormo’s oeuvre) and the subject, which shows nicholaswells.com and Adam Calvert Bentley – they are Adam and Eve at work after the fall of man with the first children, Cain and Abel, at their very nimble and run circles around the feet. Burlington Magazine described it last year as a “major discovery for the art of the 1 How did you get your start? established trade. There are also great Florentine Renaissance” and it has already found a buyer for an undisclosed sum ahead I studied art history and heritage interior designers out there that I admire of the show’s opening on January 25. management at the University of greatly such as Nicholas Haslam and Titled Grey Matters, the exhibition is drawn from American museums and private Buckingham. With a passion for the Colefax & Fowler. collections and examines the concept of ‘paragone’ through Pontormo’s grisaille decorative arts, I sent every dealer in the technique. Paragone London antiques trade letters saying I’d 4 One object you couldn’t do was popularised by like to work for free and started first with without? Leonardo da Vinci Jonathan Horne in Kensington Church My cameras - a Canon DSLR and and sparked vigorous Street and then Mallett at Bourdon Hasselblad medium format. Trading debates in Renaissance House. Fourteen years later I struck out online demands excellent photos. I Italy concerning the on my own, specialising in 18th and 19th personally oversee all the photography; it superiority of painting or century furniture, works of art, arms is crucial to the business. Everything has sculpture. and armour and oceanic art. I’m drawn to be honestly represented and shown at A range of artworks to the history, the way the objects were its absolute best. produced between late- commissioned, made and the places 15th century and early they were made for. 5 Do you collect anything 16th century is for sale personally? with prices starting in 2 What’s one great discovery I collect Indian and Ceylonese boxes. I’ve five figures. you’ve made? done it forever. They’re wonderful objects, nicholashall.art While I was still at Mallett I found a table especially the porcupine quill boxes, and at a second-hand shop and bought it for have such a story behind them. They £50. We got it into Christie’s and sold it were bought by travellers on the trade for £5000 – a great calamander table, route between Europe and China and I like Left: Adam and Eve, and someone else obviously thought how the designs reflect the influence of 1518, by Jacopo so too. It was a pivotal decision-making both cultures. Carrucci, known as Pontormo, is the If you would like to be featured in 5 Questions, please contact centrepiece of Nicholas [email protected] Hall’s Grey Matters exhibition in New York. antiquestradegazette.com 23 January 2021 | 27
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